SUMMARY

A citizen submitted a request for access to information addressed to the Ministry of Justice with the aim of knowing some reports of the State Attorney on the extraordinary update of the accounts for the year 2019 of the Autonomous Communities of common system and of the Local Entities, in a situation of budgetary extension, which has served as a basis for the approval of Royal Decree-Law 13/2019.

The Ministry denied the information stating that the Generalitat de Catalunya has filed an administrative appeal with the National High Court against the Ministry of Finance’s decision of August 1, 2019, rejecting the request of the Secretariat of Public Finances of the Generalitat de Catalunya of February 22, 2019 for the updating and implementation of the accounts provided for in the current model of financing of the autonomous communities. Appeal admitted to the proceedings before the 7th Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the National High Court with No 1978/2019, by Decree of September 16, 2019.

Once a complaint has been filed, the Transparency and Good Governance Council considered it, since we are clearly faced with the request for a report on the legality of administrative actions or those that may form part of the motivation of administrative resolutions and not a report that is issued on the occasion of the filing of a specific appeal processed between different parties, as legal advice aimed at assessing the success or development of the action.